244 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Heteromerous Coleoptera 
emarginate at the apex ; the genital organs exposed, the outer lobes 
of which are broad, curved, and spoon-shaped 
Length 10|-12^, breadth 2^3^ mm. ((J $ ). 
Eah. N. W. Australia, Port Darwin. 
Two specimens. Allied to C. {Nacerdes) nigripennis, 
Montr., but differing from it in having the head and 
thorax more densely punctured, the thorax flatter and 
more shallowly foveate. On flowers (Walker). 
Copidita bipartitaj n. sp. 
Moderately elongate, subopaque, testaceous, the eyes black, the 
elytra with the outer half fusco-plumbeous, this colour extending 
inwards for some little distance from the base downwards and con- 
tinued along the first costa to the middle ; the antennae, the tips of 
the mandibles, the palpi, and legs fuscous, the basal half of the 
femora testaceous ; the under surface testaceous, the ventral 
segments 2-5 fuscous ; above and beneath finely pubescent. Head 
closely, finely punctate, the eyes very large and coarsely granu- 
lated ; the mandibles bifid at the tip ; antennae extending to 
beyond the middle of the elytra, slender, filiform, the apical joint 
slightly constricted beyond the middle. Prothorax oblong-cordate, 
a little longer than broad, slightly sinuate at the sides in front as 
viewed from above ; the disc deeply obliquely grooved on either 
side before the middle, slightly flattened in front and behind ; the 
base with a reflexed margin ; the surface closely, finely punctate. 
Elytra moderately long, twice as wide as the prothorax ; densely, 
finely punctate, the interspaces granulate, and with two rather 
sharp costse on the disc and one near the margin. Beneath closely 
punctured. Length 9^^, breadth 2^ mm. ( ^ ). 
Hob. W. Australia — Roebuck Bay. 
One female specimen. 
ASCLERA. 
Asclera, Schmidt, Linn. Ent._, i., p. 38 (1846). 
Asclera athinsonij n. sp. 
Sessinia athinsonij C. 0. Waterh., in litt. 
Moderately elongate, black ; the prothorax rufous or flavo-ruf ous, 
shining ; the elytra green or bluish-green, with a more or less distinct 
narrow transverse yellowish fascia a little before the apex ; the 
antennae black, with the two basal joints in the male, and the basal 
joint only in the female, testaceous beneath ; the maxillary palpi 
